#24 - PHP Async, DigitalOcean Partners With Laravel, Prices Continue Trending Downward, New Releases, Interesting FrankenPHP Discussion, Vercel Series F, Bolt's New Phase Of Vibe Coding
October 07, 2025
19:27
I have 10 items to bring to your attention. The PHP True Async RFC's development is progressing. DigitalOcean announces their Strategic Partnership with Laravel's Forge. There are serverless price lowerings, without being outright price drops. Some release announcements. Vercel Series F funding round.
Links:
- Bolt: The vibe coding revolution enters its next phase: Introducing Bolt v2
- DigitalOcean: Announcing per-sec billing, new Droplet plans, BYOIP, and NAT gateway preview to reduce scaling costs
- DigitalOcean: December 2024 10-K
- DigitalOcean: Laravel Simplifies Server Provisioning with Launch of Laravel VPS, Powered by DigitalOcean
- FrankenPHP: Add Websocket Support in FrankenPHP, issue #1888
- Google Cloud: 11 ways to reduce your Google Cloud compute costs today
- Google Cloud: Meet the new GKE: Extending Autopilot to all qualifying clusters
- LocalStack: Announcing the LocalStack for AWS 4.9 Release
- PHP: RFC True Async
- Vercel: Towards the AI Cloud: Our Series F
Attributions
Beethoven's Symphony No.8, Op.93:
Beethoven's Symphony No.9, Op.125: